Women In Nigerian History
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Author |
: Nkparom C. Ejituwu |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X004825459 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women in Nigerian History by : Nkparom C. Ejituwu
This books represents a survey of the historical experience of women in the Niger Delta region, intending to fill the gap in information on Nigerian women. It arises from a conference on historiography and women's history, and focuses on the documentation of women's contribution to historical development, or rather lack thereof, which has resulted in the invisibility of women in historical narratives. It advocates gender as a tool of historical analysis; discusses the corrective role of Gender Studies, and to what extend expansion in this field is providing a solution. The volume includes a contribution by the renowned Nigerian feminist Professor of History at the University of Ibadan, Awe Bolanle.
Author |
: Obioma Nnaemeka |
Publisher |
: Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 159221746X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592217465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Shaping Our Struggles by : Obioma Nnaemeka
In analysing a range of materials that testify to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, this groundbreaking collection seeks to draw attention to neglected aspects of women's lives in Nigerian society as a whole. Exploring the historical, developmental and socio-cultural experiences of women across Nigeria's cultures, it reappraises their role as historical actors and helps to facilitate a more encompassing view of their place in society and their still underestimated contribution to social development.
Author |
: Bolanle Awe |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X004021143 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective by : Bolanle Awe
Author |
: Judith A. Byfield |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821446904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821446908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Upheaval by : Judith A. Byfield
This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.
Author |
: Obioma Nnaemeka |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592217451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592217458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shaping Our Struggles by : Obioma Nnaemeka
This publication provides a critical reconsideration of women in Nigerian society by exploring their historical, developmental, and socio-cultural experiences across Nigeria's cultures. While focusing on still neglected aspects of women's experiences, a reappraisal of women's roles as historical actors facilitates a fuller understanding of their place in society and their contribution to societal development. Their changing roles, their marginalization at different historical times, and most importantly, their resilience and resistance to the classification of women as the lower class in society is reflected in the diverse and reflective essays presented in this volume. In analyzing a range of material that testifies to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, the essays in this collection consider women as a distinct category in society and reflect on ays women have navigated through the obstacles which have confronted them historically and their extraordinary abilities to assert their autonomy as individuals and as groups.
Author |
: Cheryl Johnson-Odim |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252066138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252066139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis For Women and the Nation by : Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anticolonial movement.For Women and the Nation is the story of this courageous woman, one of a handful of full-length biographies of African women activists. It will be welcomed by students of women's studies, African history, and biography, as well as by opponents of the Nigerian military regime that has held one of her sons, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in solitary confinement since August 1995.CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM, chair and associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, is coeditor of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History. NINA EMMA MBA, senior lecturer in history at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, is the author of Nigerian Women Mobilized and Ayo Rosijc.
Author |
: Nwando Achebe |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2011-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253222480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253222486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Female King of Colonial Nigeria by : Nwando Achebe
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Author |
: Marc Matera |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230356061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230356060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Women's War of 1929 by : Marc Matera
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1594609314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594609312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Women's War of 1929 by : Toyin Falola
This book offers a narrative and analysis of a central event in the colonial history of Nigeria - the Women's War of 1929, also called the Aba Women's Riots by colonial officials. The Women's War of 1929 addresses the historical debates related to the causes and consequences of the event with assessments of each side's strengths and weaknesses. Focusing mainly on the actions of African participants, the book explains the cultural, social, and economic issues that led to the Women's War and the reasons why women used specific strategies. It also evaluates the aftermath of the conflict and how the protest practices used by Igbo and Ibibio women influenced British colonial policy. The book goes further than other historical accounts of the Women's War by evaluating subsequent women's protests into the 1930s. The volume includes a large collection of primary documents reproduced for print from archives in Nigeria and London. A chapter designed for students gives context to the documents and offers a short guide on how to use them effectively. The document collection offers insights into more than just the Women's War, owing to firsthand accounts and opinions from Igbo and Ibibio people, as well as how colonial officials described life under British colonialism. The documents section is designed to be a primary resource for students and professors of African Studies, African History, British Imperial Studies, and Gender Studies so that readers interested in the subject have the chance to read the actual words of African women and colonial officials. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "Fantastic! That's the first word that comes to mind in considering this volume. Falola and Paddock have done researchers, teachers and students an enormous service by making readily available for the first time a sizeable chunk of the enormous quantity of testimonies and documents generated as a result of Women's War of 1929. Teachers especially will find the chapter on historiography, which provides a thoughtful, useful and concise guide for students on how historians work, of great interest." -- Anene Ejikeme, Associate Professor of History, Trinity University "This book is by far the most comprehensive study on the 1929 Women's War, a major milestone in the colonial history of Nigeria. It goes beyond a synthesis of scholarship on the war by offering a rich and nuanced narrative of the multifaceted causes and consequences of the anti-colonial movement within the contexts of the Igbo and Ibibio socio-cultural organizations, and the colonial political economy. The inclusion of key primary documents and excerpts on the war and related events with useful information on historical techniques distinguishes this book from many others on Nigerian nationalist studies, and underscores its significance to African colonial historiography and British imperial studies. It provides critical perspectives on women and gender studies, anthropological and historical studies, and studies in colonialism, nationalism, and resistance, and therefore, will be of interest to a wide readership including students and researchers." -- Gloria Chuku, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Maryland "As this book illustrates, the testimonies of men and women speaking about the Women's War allow readers to hear their voices ... Throughout this book, the authors have done a fine job of highlighting the richness of African voices, which reveal the complexity of the colonial encounter." -- Africa
Author |
: Karen M. Offen |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 576 |
Release |
: 1991-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349215126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349215120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Women’s History by : Karen M. Offen
Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of "experience", the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.